Title

Does Team Building Work?

Keywords

Team building; Team development; Team performance

Abstract

This research reports the results of a comprehensive investigation into the effectiveness of team building. The article serves to update and extend Salas, Rozell, Mullen, and Driskell's (1999) team-building meta-analysis by assessing a larger database and examining a broader set of outcomes. Our study considers the impact of four specific team-building components (goal setting, interpersonal relations, problem solving, and role clarification) on cognitive, affective, process, and performance outcomes. Results (based on 60 correlations) suggest that team building has a positive moderate effect across all team outcomes. In terms of specific outcomes, team building was most strongly related to affective and process outcomes. Results are also presented on the differential effectiveness of team building based upon the team size. © 2009 SAGE Publications.

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Publication Title

Small Group Research

Volume

40

Issue

2

Number of Pages

181-222

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496408328821

Socpus ID

62349127533 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/62349127533

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